- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: May 30, 2007
- Total Downloads: 8,774,192
- Downloads last week: 25,669
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A newer version of iTunes for Windows is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1271 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Although iTunes has always been one of the best pieces of jukebox software available, the company improved upon a great thing with version 7, which added enhanced video capabilities and new ways to view your music library.
A cleaned-up left sidebar makes finding your music and videos a snap and the new Album and Cover-Flow view options let you flip through CDs in style. The built-in video player accommodates both your own files and ones you buy at the iTunes Store; right-clicking a clip lets you render it iPod-compatible. With the addition of full-length movies at the iTunes Store (Music is no longer part of the name), you can now view near-DVD quality movies at a resolution of 640x480. The experience of both purchasing and playing movies and videos is almost identical to performing the same actions with music, so seasoned users will have no trouble (with fast broadband, movies download in about a half hour). With iTunes version 7.2, the option to buy higher quality, more expensive songs with no DRM is a necessary nod towards where the industry is going, but we wonder how it will be received by users.
All the features we love from past versions are still intact, including seamless iPod integration, smart playlists, CD burning, label printing, the ability to rip files in multiple formats (except WMA), network sharing, and, of course, the enormously successful iTunes Store. Rounding out the feature set are parental controls, integrated podcasts, and a smart-shuffle option. Whether you're already among the converted or have yet to try this top-notch player, iTunes 7 should find a home on any media junkie's computer.
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Publisher's description
From Apple :iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software, is now available for Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store as Mac users, with the same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same 99-cents-per-song pricing. With music from all five major music companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs. Features include a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine-quality AAC-encoding from audio CDs, smart playlists, more than 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, to burn content to DVDs to back up an entire music collection, and to share music via Rendezvous over any network, cross-platform.
Version 7 adds navigation by album covers with Cover Flow, backup features, Apple Software Update for Windows, and high-quality feature movies for preview and purchase. Version 7.2 adds support for iTunes Plus with DRM-free music.
What's new in this version:
Version 7.2 adds support for iTunes Plus with DRM-free music.
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User reviews of iTunes for Windows 7.2
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 1271 votes
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.2
Pros: It's still iTunes, so you can still get iTunes tracks...
Cons: When you first click on the link in the iTunes store for iTunes plus, it takes you to a new page where you can download the new DRM free tracks. But when you click on an a song or album, a popup appears that says:
"Do You Want to Set Your iTunes Plus Preference?
By selecting iTunes Plus below, you will always see the iTunes Plus version of an album or music video whenvever one is available. You can change this preference by going to your iTunes Store Account page at any time."
Ok, so I tell it no... And nothing happens. It doesn't let me look at the album or track I selected. Ok, so I think "just say yes then go back and reset the preference back to show normal tracks whenever one is available", since I'd rather surf through the DRM free stuff on a page all it's own, but when you do that, the next time you go to iTunes Plus and click on an album or song, again iTunes demands you set your preference to iTunes plus! I gotta say, I'd rather not have this setting set like this because I don't ever want to get something I didn't want. What if I purchase music thinking I'm getting DRM free tracks when it's actually the old crappy-AaScSc tracks? No, it's better to have the DRM free stuff be it's own store or section to prevent confusion.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.2
Pros: Used to work fine yesterday.
Cons: DO NOT install release 7.2, it didn't work for me, reports some problems with the audio settings. Previous release worked fine, but i can't restore it now...
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.2
"Audio Quality that will PWN the rest."
Pros: Just to reply to what other people are saying, I have a few suggestions: RTFM! Even stupid Mac'ers can use iTunes and you Windoze users cant? Shameful! Other than that get more RAM if its slow, or switch! This aint a negative, this is because were in the era where 1GB of RAM is not enough not even 2GB!
- You cant beat it its just like a Media Player on crack
- Audio Quality is just wack good
Cons: Using 23mb of Ram (Winamp uses bellow 7mb)
Skips tracks familiar with Windows Media Player
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.2
"Good at organicing songs, but uses too much resources"
Pros: Easy to use, organicing songs is easy too. Full featured.
Cons: Uses too much system resources, is slow and my machine stops responding when iTunes change the song, then works again. What!?
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: iTunes for Windows 7.2
Pros: Very good.
Easy to use, even a novice computer person can easily use
looks great,
good at orgonizing your music
also music + video store is superb!
Cons: MEMORY HOG itunes uses 100mb just standing idle
a convert all songs to a certaint format would be great so you could make your library smaller.
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